- Cyberattack hits Liechtenstein’s register of people behind companies and foundations
Source: Seattle Times
“A cyberattack tapped the data of some 31,000 people in Liechtenstein’s register of people behind companies and foundations in the wealthy principality, the government said. The ‘register of economic beneficiaries’ was accessed at night from Wednesday into Thursday last week, the government said. It said that the breach was noticed on Thursday, that measures were taken to secure data and the system taken offline. The government said there were no indications that any data was altered or deleted.
The list of people behind companies, foundations and trusteeships is part of efforts to combat money laundering and terror financing.” (08/03/26) - UEFA threatens Infantino, Joshua Kushner with legal action
Source: Politico
“The governing body of European football, UEFA, has threatened legal action against FIFA President Gianni Infantino, venture capitalist Joshua Kushner — brother of U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — and other individuals involved in the controversial plan to privatize a share of the World Cup’s commercial operations. UEFA is ‘actively considering legal action, arbitration, and/or regulatory complaints’ against Infantino, reads a letter sent to Infantino, seen by the Telegraph. The move follows Infantino’s proposal to transfer FIFA’s commercial rights and tournament operations to a private entity firm — in partnership with Thrive Capital, Kushner’s venture capital company — allowing private investors to acquire a 20 percent stake. UEFA opposed the plan and unanimously voted to boycott the World Cup if the project was adopted, arguing it had been developed without proper consultation with member associations and would effectively privatize part of the tournament’s commercial business. The proposal was ultimately shelved.” (08/03/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/uefa-legal-action-against-gianni-infantino-joshua-kushner
- Iran: Regime Kills Two People Accused of Spying for Israel
Source: US News & World Report
“Iran executed two of its citizens on Monday on charges of espionage and cooperation with Israel, Iranian state media reported, amid an increase in executions for offences relating to national security. Omid Behzad and Pouria Safvat were accused of sending Israel the coordinates of military and security sites as well as images and information during a brief war last summer and during the latest conflict, judiciary news outlet Mizan reported.” (08/03/26)
- US, Japanese regimes confirm coordinated yen intervention, signal readiness for more
Source: CNBC
“Japan’s finance ministry said Monday it had conducted a coordinated yen-buying operation with the U.S. Treasury on Friday, marking a rare joint move by the two allies to stem sharp swings in the Japanese currency. … The ministry also announced plans to utilize the Federal Reserve’s foreign and international monetary authorities repo facility in the future. FIMA repo facility allows approved foreign central banks and monetary authorities to obtain short-term dollars by temporarily exchanging U.S. Treasury securities. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also confirmed the coordinated action in a statement, saying, ‘Friday’s coordinated foreign exchange actions countered disorderly yen movements.'” (08/02/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/03/yen-intervention-us-japan-trump-bessent-katayama.html
- Brazil: Lula launches reelection bid as concerns rise over foreign interference
Source: ABC News
“What is very likely to be the last reelection bid of Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was confirmed on Sunday by his Workers’ Party as the 80-year-old leader faces increasing pressure from foreign leaders ahead of October’s elections. It will be his seventh race for the top job. Lula’s rival, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, has enjoyed open support from members of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, Argentina’s President Javier Milei and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Brazil’s president said in his party convention speech he wants to boost his country’s defense industry, protect its rare minerals, and claimed ‘no Chinese, no American, no French will touch’ these resources without respecting the South American nation’s sovereignty.” (08/02/26)
- The Coup In Search of a Philosophy
Source: The Daily Economy
by Surse Pierpoint“In 1925, John Maynard Keynes dismissed Marx’s Capital as an obsolete economic textbook that no serious economist would still assign. He was not being contrarian. By the time he wrote that, the marginal revolution of the 1870s had already done the intellectual work: Jevons, Menger, Walras, and later Wicksteed, Marshall, and Böhm-Bawerk had dismantled the labor theory of value that Marx’s entire economic system rested on. Among economists, the argument was over, and Marx had lost it. So why does Marx remain one of the most cited authors in the humanities and social sciences, a century and a half after his death, in fields far removed from the one where his core claims were actually tested?” (08/03/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-coup-in-search-of-a-philosophy/
- Fox News screaming desperately into wind as Trump loses grip
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Nolan Denaro“The popular rightwing network spent months building a case for the Iran War. Now they are invested in keeping up support, even if hosts have to deny reality.” (08/03/26)
- Censorship Is More Offensive Than Any Slur
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Kym Robinson“The desire to ban speech, in any form, is an example of insecurity inside society and government. Knowing that certain words or images may in some way draw revulsion and offense is a risk an individual must take. Not everyone will experience the same offense or revulsion, and some may even find arousal or delight in such words or images. It’s what makes the human experience unique and it is why free expression is a sacred thing.” (08/03/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/censorship-is-more-offensive-than-any-slur/
- The Cure for Russia’s Labor Shortage Is Worse Than the Disease
Source: Foreign Policy
by Samuel Bendett & Maria Snegovaya“Among the various challenges that Russia has faced since its ill-conceived full-scale invasion of Ukraine, one of the most acute has been a severe labor shortage. Russia’s deepening demographic crisis, combined with mass emigration and recruitment of hundreds of thousands of men into the army, has sharply exacerbated the problem. … By 2030, Russia will need to bring 10.9 million people into the workforce, according to Labor Minister Anton Kotyakov, with more than 90 percent replacing retiring workers and roughly 800,000 filling newly created positions. The rapid expansion of defense production has drawn workers away from civilian sectors, intensifying competition for an already scarce workforce. … The Kremlin’s response has rested on three pillars: mobilizing underutilized domestic labor, expanding prison labor, and increasing labor migration. Each proves to be either insufficient or self-defeating. When it comes to Russia’s labor shortage, the cure is worse than the disease.” (08/03/26)
- Iran’s Leaders Now Doubt a Peace Deal Is Possible
Source: The American Conservative
by Esfandyar Batmanghelidj“What I’ve learned from speaking with Iranian officials and analysts.” (08/03/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/irans-leaders-now-doubt-a-peace-deal-is-possible/
- Managed democracy versus a republic
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton“The entire premise of democracy is based on a fallacy that is as ignored as it is ubiquitous: that a majority is always right, and that a committee is somehow smarter and wiser than any individual. When tied to the idea that government has power over the lives of people that it should have, it creates a truly monstrous evil. So what does this mean to lovers of liberty? It is more than just the tyranny of the majority, and how that so typically results in riding roughshod over individuals and their lives and liberty. It is more than just the cost of such ‘democratic institutions’ or even the way money destroys the meaning of free elections in so many ways. Democracy survives only by propaganda that extolls it and therefore government. The result is that government is made into an absolute essential for any society.” (08/02/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/08/02/managed-democracy-versus-a-republic
- Executive War Powers and Iran: Why Congress Must Reclaim Article 1 Authority
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey“President Trump recently halted his proposed strikes against Iran in favor of regional diplomatic talks; he has the right instincts, and while this is the right thing to do – favor diplomatic talks and engage in free trade – he is under pressure by war hawks all around him. He’s been engaged in this ‘on again — off again’ war talk since February, at the behest of Netanyahu and Israel. All of this is happening with little input from Congress, which has the power to give him the ‘go ahead’ to engage in a war with Iran. It seems that, over the last several decades, Congress has abdicated its power to declare war, giving it up to the Executive branch so they do not receive flak from their constituents blowing up in their face.” (08/02/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/executive-war-powers-and-iran-why
- Who’s Really Afraid of the DSA?
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid“So, the communists are coming again or at least so screech the doom merchants over at the GOP. Fox News is ablaze with round-the-clock, wall-to-wall coverage of the Democratic Party’s fall beneath the unstoppable onslaught of the deadly DSA; a Maoist cult of ultra-woke, brown grad students just itching to open the borders and empty the suburbs into the killing fields of a terrifyingly transgender Khmer Rouge cover band. I’m not the communist I once was but it actually sounds pretty sexy when I write it down like that. Unfortunately, all available evidence suggests that this latest red scare is just more post-McCarthyite fan fic from an increasingly desperate Republican Party.” (08/02/26)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/08/whos-really-afraid-of-dsa.html
- Inside Christian nationalists’ war on religious freedom
Source: The Hill
by David Wippman and Glenn C Altschuler“Earlier this year, a presidential commission staffed almost entirely by conservative Christians urged Americans to rethink the separation of church and state and build ‘bridges’ between them. Last week, the Department of Justice directed federal agencies to expand protections for religious expression in public employment, military service, education, healthcare and federal contracting. These policies reflect the influence of Christian nationalism, a movement predicated on the belief that the United States is ‘divinely chosen,’ the New Testament should shape government policies, and white Christians should dominate American culture.” (08/02/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/6002868-christian-nationalism-threatens-democracy/
- Four F-Droid Android Apps for Privacy, Security, and Counter-Surveillance
Source: Agorist Nexus
by TechLibre“Your Android phone is a tracking device that happens to make calls. It knows where you sleep, what you search, who you talk to, and what you whisper near its microphone. The apps below won’t make you invisible—but they’ll make you expensive to surveil.” (08/02/26)
- The Liberty Dad Podcast, episode 757
Source: The Liberty Dad Podcast
“Can Libertarian Ideas Work (Answering Critics).” (08/03/26)
- EconTalk, 08/03/26
Source: EconTalk
“The Political Economy of Palestine (with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour).” (08/03/26)
https://www.econtalk.org/the-political-economy-of-palestine-with-hussein-aboubakr-mansour/
- Pink Flame of Liberty, 08/02/26
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Let’s Watch the August 2, 2026 LNC Meeting.” (08/02/26)
- Free Talk Live, 08/02/26
Source: Free Talk Live
No description available, but it’s a 2+ hour show hosted by Bonnie, Reilly O’Bill, and Richie Rich. (08/02/26)
- The Kyle Anzalone Show, 08/02/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Jon Hoffman: Did Trump Put Saudi on the Path to Nuclear Weapons?!” (08/02/26)
- Unattended Baggage, episode 350
Source: Unattended Baggage
“What’s on your To Do list?” (08/02/26)
https://unattendedbaggage.substack.com/p/episode-350-whats-on-your-to-do-list